NOT ANOTHER AI SUCCESS STORY—A CAUTION WORTH REMEMBERING

While the world leans harder on algorithms, one voice dared to ask: what gets lost when we stop thinking for ourselves? On a humid morning in Manila’s premier lecture theatre, Joseph Plazo addressed the room not as a prophet of AI, but as its conscience.---### His First Sentence Wasn’t Loud, But It Shook the Walls He didn’t come with hype